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About Me

Music is something I've always looked for and looked forward to. I'm currently a novice composer trying to better myself, so that my future will involve myself having a career in music (video game music in particular). I would like to share whatever knowledge I obtain with people who feel the way I do about music.

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Hello all, I've come to get recommendations before I make changes to my blog. I'm at the moment making a monetized blog that focuses on video game music. I'll sometimes write reviews of indie games, write reviews on indie game soundtracks or upcoming composers, or do a musical analysis on certain songs. It'd be much easier to draw in a crowd if I could actually have the music itself embedded in the blog post. However, I can't use the ever popular Youtube as that would be seen as copyright infringement from what I've researched. That's totally understandable. It wouldn't be copyright infringement to post a link leading to the site that has the actual music. I actually don't have a problem with that. However, if the user uploading the music isn't the sole owner of said music, then I can still possibly get into trouble. So, I'm at a loss. I could very well message every video game company or composer and ask for permission to embed their music in my blog. That would be a ton of companies. Yet, with their busy schedules I don't see myself getting a reply soon if at all. And now we've arrived at the big, hard question that I've harassed Google with....

Does anybody know of a website that legally stores a large supply of video game music that has embeddable features on the individual song so that my linking to the music would be possible? It could be a site like Bandcamp, Youtube, Last.fm. Just any site that you've heard about through the grapevine or anything really.

I don't see much hope for this, but I figure it never hurts to ask just in case.

I am a beginner when it comes to programming, and I read this article to figure out how to help me get started. After reading, I decided I would try to learn Python first and then learn C++ later on. I made the mistake of telling my friend, who is not a programmer, what I planned on doing and he told me I should dive right into learning C++. He also said I shouldn't try to learn more than one language. Now, I don't know much about programming, so before I started learning anything I figured I should get the opinion of people who are actually programming.

So should I go ahead with my original plan and learn Python first, or should I do what my friend suggested and dive right into C++?

Both of these sites are supposed to be used for promoting/sharing your music with other people. I've heard it's becoming more popular and it's supposed to be very useful. Has anyone used any of these before?

Well, I've been told my music lacks dynamics and has no sense of theory, so I made this song experimenting with both. I played around with the tempo a lot and the time signatures. The song is written in C# minor and the time signatures are 4/4 and 3/4. I'd really like feedback on this. I really do have a hard time wrapping my head around music theory and dynamics so I figured I'd do what I do whenever I'm having a hard time with something. Practice.